Chapter 361: Collaboration with VIA
On the other side of the ocean, Grove was shocked: "What did you say? Their Pacific Group's Loongson No. 1 is also sold for $950 a piece? How did they set the same price as we did if they knew in advance? ”
This is definitely no coincidence!
"I've already asked Pete." Moore said: "He once quoted this price to the L Xiang Company in the East, after all, the L Xiang Company leaked all the parameters of Loongson No. 1, they just want our 486 to be the first in the Eastern Continent, of course you have to know the price." ”
"Damn, this L thinks that the company is definitely in league with Loongson, and it fools us with false performance!" Grove said: "Pete, that idiot, has been played around by the Orientals!" ”
According to the company, Loongson No. 1 is also at the level of 386, and now? It's even better than the 486 they just released, and it uses the frequency doubling technology that Intel is planning to use! l thought that all the information of the company was wrong, and told Loongson the information that he had taken!
This l thinks that the company dares to deceive them, and it must not be allowed to have a good end!
At this time, at the Hannover Messe, Yang Qingfeng, who exhibited the 286 motherboard developed by L Xiang Company, was also dumbfounded.
l think the company also wants to march into the whole machine manufacturing, last year in the Pearl of the Orient investment in the purchase of factories, it began research and development in full swing, although 386 has been listed in large quantities, 486 is also about to appear, but, they developed the 286 motherboard, after all, 286 is still a volume of models.
Originally, Liu Zhonglie also planned to come over, but because of the relationship with Intel, they could get the 486 processor at any time, Liu Zhonglie did not come, and sent Yang Qingfeng to exhibit the 286 motherboard developed by the company, and they also want to enter the Western market!
Now, Yang Qingfeng only felt a thunderbolt from the sky.
The performance of Loongson No. 1 is so strong? What you know before are all fake? Weiwei actually lied to herself? Why did she lie to herself?
At this moment, Qin Feng only felt extremely happy.
Of course, Yang Qingfeng couldn't tell him the price of the 486 processor, but without Yang Qingfeng telling him, Qin Feng also knew that when the 486 was just listed, the price was as high as $950!
You must know that the most advanced 386 machine at the same time is only 3,000 US dollars, and Intel dares to set this price for the new generation of processors!
Then he was slapped in the face, isn't 386 fragrant? For the same price, I can buy four pieces of 386!
As a result, in just half a year, the price of the 486 processor was reduced from $950 to $300, and as the price gradually became more affordable, sales improved.
Now, Loongson No. 1 is also sold at this price, we have this confidence!
Our Loongson No. 1 starts at a frequency of 50 megahertz. This is only the most conservative, as long as the external frequency is slightly adjusted to 33 megahertz, the frequency can reach 66 megahertz, and when the processor with triple frequency and quadruple frequency is produced later, the main frequency can exceed 100 megahertz!
I'm not afraid of not knowing the goods, I'm afraid of comparing goods, we sell the same price as Intel, and we can also rely on performance advantages to beat the 486!
Looking at the eyes full of anticrisy at the scene, Qin Feng was full of pride.
l I still dream, I want to be their only general contractor, and I have to set a price for them, and I say that I have to sell it cheaper, why? Our Eastern products are no worse than Western ones, or even better than theirs, so why should we sell them at low prices?
We just want to sell at the same price as in the West!
The chip is updated quickly, and it can't catch up if it falls behind, so there must be a large amount of money invested in research and development, where does the money come from? To sell the product, of course!
You must not look at the price of that bit of sand to determine the price of the chip, the cost of the chip is not in production, but in research and development! Loongson No. 1 must be sold and make a lot of money, so as to form a virtuous circle, otherwise it will be the same as some new energy sources in later generations.
Financing, building cars, losing money, refinancing, delivering new cars every year, losing money every year, I don't know how to spend the money, but the salaries of executives are sky-high, and there will always be a year when the general ledger will be calculated.
The people below looked at the computer screen and then overhead, trying to find the drone, and the big guy's heart was just as shocked.
The printer was moved, and in the creaking sound, the calculation data was printed out one by one, and immediately someone next to him went to compare it with the standard value.
"That's right!"
"That's right!"
If you print intensively, a piece of paper can print twenty-five lines, thirty numbers per line, that is, seven hundred and fifty digits, one million digits, that also requires more than a thousand pieces of paper, and it may not be possible to complete all the corrections until tomorrow, but with every page of paper that is typed out in front of you is correct, the big guy is already excited.
"This processor is so advanced that it can be used to build a giant computer!" Someone below said: "We only need to use 200 processors to develop the world's first computer with 10 billion computing power!" ”
This 10 billion operations per second is not comparable to the computing speed of a mobile phone processor in later generations, but in the late 80s, it was definitely an anti-heaven existence, after all, the normal situation could not be manufactured until the 90s. Now it can be ranked in the top 10 in the world with 100 million times.
Everyone looked at the person who spoke, and many recognized it: Rippert, the head of the Partec company, who also had a booth in the exhibition grounds!
Two hundred dollars is not a lot, less than $200,000 in business, but it's a good start! Selling the first processor made in the East to Westerners is a zero breakthrough, and in the past, don't even think about it!
"No, you can't buy it!" At this time, a voice suddenly came from below: "Loongson is not known, the first time to produce processors, there may be all kinds of problems, everyone should keep their eyes open!" ”
Qin Feng's gaze was cold, he was condescending, and instantly caught the person who spoke: Yang Qingfeng!
At such a time, it really jumped out!
Yang Qingfeng knew that if Loongson was sold, then the company would be completely finished, and he would be finished, all the news he inquired about at the beginning was wrong, and after he went back, he would not end well, unless he made meritorious contributions here!
"That's right, our Loongson company is a new company, and we are also producing processors for the first time, but our R&D team is the most professional!" Qin Feng spoke: "Most of our technicians have been tempered by the 156 Project, you may not know, let me explain to you, in fact, when we made mushroom bombs, we needed to develop advanced missile-based computers......
Our personnel are all experienced veterans!
"Our old Ni is the person in charge of the whole project, and he is a veteran with rich experience in studying and researching abroad for many years."
"Yes, I know him, we worked together when we were in the United States! Mr. Ni is very capable! Someone below immediately recognized Ni Lao.
"Just now, we have confirmed the advanced of our processor, we calculated the value of pi, and detected that there is still no error, this gentleman in the audience, you slander us like this, are you not afraid to stand in court and be a defendant? Our team of lawyers is ready! ”
Qin Feng didn't look at Yang Qingfeng, but looked at the other person present: "Mr. Mateus, is this kind of behavior of running in front of other people's booths to slander people in this industrial fair?" ”
"This kind of behavior is the most despicable." Mateus nodded: "Security, get out of that person who casually slanders others!" ”
The two Western security guards walked up to Yang Qingfeng, he was immediately discouraged, and obediently followed out, and when he turned his head to look at Qin Feng, there was unwillingness and anger in his eyes.
"What architecture does your processor use?" What instruction set was used? At that moment, someone below opened up another question.
This is quite critical, and if you don't get the authorization of x86, it will cause a lawsuit if you rush to use the x86 instruction set, and it is almost impossible to get these authorizations.
"Our processors use our own Dragon architecture, using the Dragon instruction set." Qin Feng introduced: "This kind of instruction set is a reduced instruction set, which can effectively improve the speed of instructions, and at the same time, these instruction sets also include multimedia instruction sets. ”
"Multimedia?"
"Yes, in the future, our computers will not only be able to type, write programs, but also play songs and videos, all of which require multimedia instruction sets, and our processors have written these instruction sets in advance to facilitate customers to use them at any time."
In this era, the computer makes a beeping sound when it is turned on, and the failure is Dididi, and the computer can still sing...... Absolutely, with the advancement of technology, it will definitely be!
The Loongson processor is so powerful that it can handle a wide variety of data!
Qin Feng insisted on finding another way and building his own architecture and instruction set, just to avoid the patent trap, even if he got the x86 instruction set now, it was useless, because the other party was going to continue to expand the instruction set, and these new instruction sets were not authorized, so he could only watch passively backward, no multimedia, no extended instruction set, and no in the 64-bit era!
"At the same time, in order to make the computer more advanced, we at Loongson also proposed a new concept of the North-South Bridge......"
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At this time, Yang Qingfeng had already been sent to the door, and when he heard the concept of the north-south bridge proposed by Qin Feng inside, his body trembled again, could this be true? Are they really going to go this way?
"The north bridge is a high-speed channel, responsible for communicating with memory, graphics cards, etc., and the south bridge is an I/O ......channel," Qin Feng gushed in.
There are a large number of experts in the computer field below, and when they heard Qin Feng's introduction, their eyes suddenly lit up, yes, this is indeed a suitable plan!
This Loongson company is amazing! Frequency doubling technology, north-south bridge technology, these are all revolutionary!
"Our Loongson company has only developed a Loongson processor, the current computer motherboard is still discrete parts, if you are interested, you can give our processor matching, we sincerely invite ......"
Before the words were finished, someone below spoke: "Our VIA company is willing to provide you with a package!" ”
Qin Feng looked at it, it was a young couple, both with yellow skin and black eyes, and he was immediately overjoyed: "Okay, two, please talk to our Ni tool body in detail!" ”
In later generations, VIA was unknown and no one had heard of it, but HTC received some attention for selling mobile phones, but in the end it disappeared silently from the competition.
However, in the 90s, VIA was definitely in full swing, and at its peak, it faintly surpassed Intel's momentum.
VIA started by making motherboard chipsets, and in the 90s, Intel's own chipsets were so hard to find that 70% of the motherboards on the market used VIA chips, and even some motherboards, the North Bridge used Intel's own chips, and the South Bridge used VIA, and the North and South Bridges could communicate normally without any problems.
Intel is in a hurry.
VIA made persistent efforts to enter the processor market through the acquisition of Cyrix, with x86 licenses, and began to build C3 processors, although the frequency is not as high as Intel's, but the power consumption is quite low, and soon a new force has emerged, VIA followed up with C7 processors, catching up with Intel in frequency.
The first Chinese core is not Loongson, let alone Hanxin polishing chips, but VIA! In the 90s, VIA played the slogan of China Chip.
Intel was scared, so it took VIA to court with a complaint, followed by a lawsuit that lasted for several years, and then a settlement, compensation, and VIA's vitality was greatly damaged.
But that's all for later.
VIA was established in the United States in '87, and it was transferred back to Wanwan in '92, and it was still in its infancy, and it was unknown, but Qin Feng knew how great their potential was, so he nodded happily at the moment.
At this time, the couple in the audience were also very happy when they heard Qin Feng's words.
Mr. Ni stepped down from the stage and invited them to the conference room specially provided by the industrial fair.
The booth is not convenient to negotiate the contract, so the organizer of the expo has prepared a lot of rooms in advance, and if you want to negotiate the contract, you can go directly to the room to negotiate it to ensure that you will not be eavesdropped.
"Chen Gong, Wang Gong, I didn't expect that we would have the opportunity to cooperate." Ni Lao said as he walked.
Mr. Ni has also worked in the United States for several years, and knows the two founders of VIA, the male is named Chen Wen, and the female is called Wang Xue.
"Yes, Ni Gong, you are really amazing, you were good in the United States back then, but you said that you would return to China when you returned to China, and I didn't hesitate at all, I knew at that time that you were a person who did great things."
"Yes, not only did you return to China, but you also bought all the 80,000 US dollars you earned in the West and brought them back to China and donated them to the computing institute, you have a broad mind, and you only have the country in your eyes!"
Back then, when Ni Lao went to the West, he was also a good hand, he was taken seriously, he was invited to work and earn money from Westerners, and when Ni Lao planned to return to China, he saved 80,000 US dollars.
How much is that?
At that time, it was only 10,000 yuan to buy a set of courtyard houses in the capital, and if this money was used to buy more than a dozen courtyard houses at that time, then Ni Lao would have to become a billionaire! Do you still need to retire and climb the house divided by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and have to rent a house in Wudaokou? How fragrant is living in a courtyard?
But Ni Lao didn't do this, Ni Lao bought all the money for instruments and equipment, because there was a lot of equipment, so much so that a container needed to be sent!
There are many returnees, buy equipment and send containers with the money they earn, and donate it to the country when they go back.
This is Ni Lao, a noble person, a pure person, and a moral person!
Elder Ni smiled: "That's all in the past, I'm in Loongson now, I'm very happy, we have come up with a processor, we Chinese have won glory, but for the time being there is no energy to do matching, if you want, we can work together in the future to become bigger and stronger!" ”
"That's right, Ni Gong, you're right!"
"That's right, we also set up a company to develop our country's chip industry, and we started to break through from this north-south bridge chip!"
As soon as a few people walked into the room, a horn sounded outside.
"In the latest expo report, Pacific Group Loongson and Acorn Computers have reached a preliminary agreement to trade the first batch of 1,000 Loongson No. 1 processors, and more than 10,000 potential orders in the later stage! We've got off to a good start at the Hannover Messe! ”
Two hundred processors are nothing, it's just a small business, so it was not announced, and the next thing is big business!
In fact, this British company, founded in 1978, is well-known in the United Kingdom, known as the British Apple computer, and even the later ARM architecture was developed by this company.
Their company's purchase of Loongson No. 1 computer fully shows that Loongson No. 1 processor has been recognized by Europeans! A thousand dollars is just the beginning, and the follow-up orders will be endless!
Outside the exhibition hall, Yang Qingfeng also heard the news and clenched his fists.
At the beginning, they also hoped to cooperate with Loongson, hoping to become the only general seller of Loongson, and they would be responsible for sales.
He is unwilling, unwilling!
Bai Weiwei, it's all because of Bai Weiwei! Yang Qingfeng's eyes burned with flames, after you go back, kill you vixen! Now, you need to make a phone call first, tell the country about the situation here, and if the phone can't get through, you have to send a telegram.
He didn't know that someone was already eyeing him.
"Mr. Morod, the Oriental who made trouble for Mr. Qin has come out!" Outside, a tiger head rushed up, and Morod heard the report from his men.
"Well, keep up with him!"
"Lord Morod, are we going to deal with him? It's just a matter of one foot on the accelerator. ”
"No, traffic accidents still need to have the police come forward, which is more troublesome, so we still use the old way."
"Yes."
In the East, to make a domestic long-distance call, you need to go to the post and telecommunications office in the provincial capital, and to make a cross-border call, you can only go to the post and telecommunications building in the capital, but in Europe it is much more convenient, and a street phone booth can make a long-distance call.
However, Yang Qingfeng walked all the way, and there were people lined up outside the phone booth on the street, and just when he hesitated whether to queue up, a person at the back of the line spoke: "The phone booth in the nearby alley is not used, I still walk a few steps and go over there to call." ”
Yang Qingfeng was already impatient, and when he heard this, he immediately followed.
Walking through the road and entering the path, there was no one inside, Yang Qingfeng hesitated a little, and at the moment when he stopped, under the telephone pole next to him, a person suddenly flashed out, holding a piece of cloth in his hand, covering his mouth, before he could struggle, he rolled his eyes and passed out.
The guy who said he was going to make a call, with a hook in his hand, easily hooked the lid of the sewer, and then waved at him.
Poof!
Yang Qingfeng was thrown into the sewer.
The two above clapped their hands, and it was done!
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